pkgsrcCon is the annual technical conference for people working on pkgsrc,
a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.
pkgsrc is the native package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X.

Developers, contributors, users and open-source enthusiasts are all welcome to attend.

This introductory talk with describe the BSD family of
operating systems, covering the history, features and benefits. Moving
from the the operating systems to user space, the packaging of software
will be covered, introducing the "ports" style of packaging and the
direction pkgsrc takes it.

Analysis of the availability of desktop oriented software in pkgsrc.
Division into Applications, System and Developer tools.
Bulk build aid in the process of porting.
The most and least covered software groups in pkgsrc.
Comparison of pkgsrc with other packaging frameworks.

This is a look at managing application deployment with pkgsrc.
Let's Compare and contrast with "traditional" mechanisms like .deb and
.rpms, tarballs, deployment tools (Salt, Capistrano, Vlad, Fabric), and
containers (Jails, Rocket, Docker, etc). In particular we'll look at the
autonomy gained from decoupling the application stack from the operating
system packages with pkgsrc's ability to have multiple parallel
installation bases all running different versions on the same system.

Based on NetBSD's rump kernel framework, the Rumprun
unikernel allows you to compile your POSIX applications into bootable
single-purpose images. Unikernels are tailored to run a single
application, thus they come without the footprint of a full-featured
operating system, ideal for application virtualization. In this talk,
I will introduce the Rumprun unikernel and show you how to turn your
application into a unikernel image.

Otoro (oh-toh-roh) stands for the fattest portion of the tuna, found on the underside of
the fish. This talk will cover Otoro in the OpenBSD ports infrastructure.
Building blocks of the ports infrastructure both technical and cultural.

The talk will cover the most revolutionary file system - ZFS.
We will discuss many interesting features like snapshots, clones and self-healing.
ZFS was introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2005 and ported to FreeBSD in 2007 and after that became the first choice file system.

In this talk I'll discuss Haiku from three perspectives:
user's, developer's and porter's. I'll go into what we are doing, how
we are doing it, and what could we do better in terms of processes in
our project.

While the world of programming is exploring different paradigms, package
management is still ruled by a narrow few. Declarative configuration
management gained some traction, by trying to abstract this legacy, but
the amount of state might feel overwhelming. Nix package manager
alleviates these issues by providing a functional, solid core for
further tasks, such as configuration management, network deployment or
dynamic resource deployment. I'd like to present how this approach helps
in topics such as determinism, rollbacks, dependency hell, atomicity and
isolation.

A short story on what's going on behind security-team@ curtain. What
exactly we do, why we need security-team@, how we're organized, what need
to be done to issue a security report and finally what can be done better!
Duration: 30 min + few minutes for Q&A session.

If you are unsure whether you will attend and you might give a talk,
it will be possible to make additional presentations ad hoc during the
conference in the unconference mode on Saturday (if the time will premit it) or on Sunday.
Alternatively this time will be used for hacking together.

Travel/accommodation expenses are not covered for speakers & attendees by the conference organizers & sponsors.

Registration & Tickets

The conference is free and there are no tickets.
Registration is also not mandatory either, so you can just show up.
But to help to plan the event it would be greatly appreciated if you let the organizer know.
Send an email to pkgsrccon2016ATpkgsrc.org
and include details like:

When will you arrive? When will you depart?

In which hotel are you staying?

Do you need help with booking the hotel or travel?

Do you want to join Friday and Saturday dinner?

Do you want to hold a talk? On which topic?

Is there anything else we need to know? Special requirements of any kind?

The conference is free and there are no tickets.

Hotel & travel information

Getting to Kraków

Kraków currently has one operational Airport
John Paul II/Balice (KRK).
It's 12 km away from the City Center.
Taxi and public transport is available.